President. on behalf of the Subcommittee on Migratory Labor. of the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. announce that public hearings will be resumed on July 20 and 21. 1970. in Washington. D.C. These hearings will be the eighth in a long series of investigations into migrant and seasonal farmworker powerlessness. In past hearings we heard migrants themselves tell of their own lives. as well as psychiatrists and sociologists analyze the effects of many years of desperation and hopelessness that characterize the farmworker existence. In other hearings we have investigated the successes and failures of community and union organization efforts. the legal problems of migrants. the border commuter labor problem. the effects of pesticides on farmworkers. and in April 1970. the economic and manpower problems of migrant and seasonal farmworkers. On July 20 and 21. the subcommittee will again consider the plight of the powerless migrant. Our first witness will be a team of noted doctors who. under the auspices of the New York Field Foundation. traveled to Texas and Florida to study the health problems and living and working conditions of migrants. I am shocked and outraged beyond belief by the preliminary reports of these doctors. We find the lives of hundreds of thousands of our fellow citizens manipulated and managed in such a way as to reduce them to subhuman status.
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